Holding Mr. Holder Accountable

By

Mary Kissel

April 13, 2012 12:09 p.m. ET

The Obama administration hasn't been shy about pushing its civil-rights agenda. But when the Department of Justice coached Saint Paul, Minn., to drop a pending Supreme Court case that the city thought it would win, the agency overstepped its bounds and let its ideological agenda trump justice. Now a House oversight committee is expanding its investigation, and rightly so.

On Tuesday, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R., N.C.) sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting detailed information about the role Justice played...